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              In Germany before the War – Randy Newman
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Written by: Randy Newman  
From: "Little Criminals" (1977)  
Tabbed by: maguri  
Tuning: Standard  

CHORDS:  
A/C#      x-4-2-2-2-x  
Cm6       x-3-1-2-1-x  
G7sus2    x-x-0-0-5-5  
Eb/G      x-x-x-0-4-6  
G7sus4/C  x-3-x-0-3-1  
Daug*     x-x-0-7-7-6  
D         x-x-0-7-7-5  
Cm6/Eb    x-6-x-5-4-5  
Daug      x-x-0-3-3-x  
D5        x-x-0-2-3-x  
D7        x-x-0-2-1-x  
C#m6      x-4-2-3-2-x  
Cm7       x-3-1-3-1-x  

[Intro]  
| Gm | % |  

[Verse 1]  
Gm  
In Germany before the war  
A/C#  
There was a man who owned a store  
Cm6                       Gm     G7sus2    Eb/G  
In nineteen hundred thirty-four in Dusseldorf  

[Verse 2]  
Gm  
And every night at five-o-nine  
A/C#  
He'd cross the park down to the Rhine  
Cm                         Gm  
And he'd sit there by the shore  

[Chorus]  
G                           G7sus4/C          Cm  
I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea  
Daug*       D            Cm6/Eb          Eb  
Thinking of the sea, Thinking of the sea  
G                           G7sus4/C          Cm  
I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea  

[Interlude]  
| Gm | % |  

[Verse 3]  
Gm   G       Gm       G  
A little girl has lost her way  
A/C#    C#m6    A/C#    C#m6  
With hair of gold and eyes of gray  
Cm      Cm7     Cm6     Cm7     Cm6       Gm  
Reflected in his glasses as he watches her  
G7sus2    Eb/G  

[Verse 4]  
Gm   G       Gm       G  
A little girl has lost her way  
A/C#    C#m6    A/C#    C#m6  
With hair of gold and eyes of gray  
| Cm   Cm7  Cm6  Cm7  Cm6 | Gm |  
(instrumental)  

[Chorus]  
G                           G7sus4/C          Cm  
I'm looking at the river but I'm thinking of the sea  
Daug*       D            Cm6/Eb          Eb  
Thinking of the sea  
| G   | G7sus4/C    Cm | Daug D5 D7 Daug |  
(instrumental)  

[Interlude]  
| Gm | % |  

[Verse 5]  
Gm   G       Gm       G  
We lie beneath the autumn sky  
A/C#    C#m6    A/C#    C#m6  
My little golden girl and I  
Cm      Cm6     Cm7     Cm6       Gm  
And she lies very still  
G7sus2    Eb/G  

[Verse 6]  
| Gm G | % | A/C# C#m6 | % |  
(instrumental)  
| Cm6  Cm7  Cm6 | Gm |  
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